Switching Ghost From Ruby Sass to Libsass:
Paul Davis (Front-End Architect at Ghost) on how they dropped the Ruby dependency from the project and moved Ghost’s SCSS compilation to Libsass.
At the end of the piece I’m still left wondering what (if any) changes they needed to make in the SCSS source itself to support the switch, but seeing the details about how they switched up their compilation was useful.
How Not to Become a Terrible Human Being Once You Get a Leadership Title:
Video of a fantastic talk by Mazz Mosley. A lot of her points remind me of the material that’s covered in Team Geek.
It’s Okay To Be Smart Explores the Scientific Processes Behind Brewing Beer
Testing with Casper-Phantom-Mocha-Chai – Anne Writes Code:
A good introductory blog post by Anne Lu about using Mocha (with Chai) in combination with CasperJS. It hits the essential points about using CasperJS, and also shows how simple it is to plug in a third-party test apparatus like Mocha. (Oddly though, her post lacks links to Mocha and Chai and I feel like some readers might get caught off-guard by the “language chains” feature of the casper-chai library.)
“But it has always seemed to me that confronting unfathomable code is the programming equivalent of staring at the abject, of slowing down to peer into the carnage of a car wreck.”
– “The Beauty of Code”, an excerpt from Geek Sublime, by Vikram Chandra, as it appears in Paris Review.
(Or Common Markdown, whatever.)
Mixed feelings about this.
As I always understood it, “the point” of Markdown was to have a (very) simple “plain text” format that you could scan/read easily without putting it through a parser. Because it was plain text. Right?
A Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. [source]
And in that respect, there should be no need to standardize.
On the other hand, Markdown is so widely used that it’d be nice if there were some consensus around how to “do” certain things with/in it. That being said, aren’t most of the “problems” just a result of trying to do complicated things?
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